David McCheyne Newell, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

David McCheyne Newell

American journalist

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1898

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1986

Profession: journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About David McCheyne Newell

  • David McCheyne Newell (23 March 1898 – 1986) was an American journalist, novelist, and children's writer perhaps most famous for his books regarding early twentieth-century rural life in West Central Florida.
  • In If Nothin' Don't Happen and The Trouble of It Is the fictional narrator, Billy Driggers, tells true-to-life stories about the people of Florida's Gulf Hammock (the coastal land between Cedar Key and the Withlacoochee River) and the surrounding environs during the interwar years.
  • Earlier writings included The Fishing and Hunting Answer Book, illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, a children's book titled American Animals, "Cougars and Cowboys" (New York.
  • The Century Co., 1927) and numerous short stories and articles. A naturalist and lifelong hunter, he was also for several years editor of Field and Stream and hosted a nature and hunting show during the early years of television in the 1950s.
  • He accompanied Annie Oakley on hunting trips when she wintered in Florida before her death in 1926.
  • He also befriended fellow Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Newell moved to Leesburg, Florida in 1912.
  • He studied at Washington University in St.
  • Louis, Missouri, enlisting in the United States Army in his junior year.
  • After studying visual arts at the St.
  • Louis School of Fine Arts, Newell went on to become a working journalist and illustrator, writing and creating art for dozens of publications including Life, Field and Stream, Boys' Life, The Saturday Evening Post, the New York Herald-Tribune and the St.
  • Louis Post-Dispatch. Newell is buried at the cemetery of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Fruitland Park, Florida next to his first wife, Frances Bosanquet Newell, with whom he had three daughters.
  • Many of Newell's paintings and letters can be seen at the Leesburg Heritage Museum, in Leesburg, FL, not far from his former home.

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